Fact-Checked by: Agência Lupa
2020/07/01 | Brazil
The CoronaVirusFacts/DatosCoronaVirus Alliance Database
Here is the database that gathers all of the falsehoods that have been detected by the CoronaVirusFacts/DatosCoronaVirus alliance. This database unites fact-checkers in more than 70 countries and includes articles published in at least 40 languages. Para búsquedas en español, haz clic aquí. Faça buscas em português aqui.
Fact-Checked by: Agência Lupa
2020/07/01 | Brazil
FALSE: Xiaomi is distributing free smartphones to students who are currently under lockdown and need a phone to study.
Fact-Checked by: Aos Fatos
2020/07/01 | Brazil
FALSE: Brazilian Supreme Court ruled that President Bolsonaro couldn’t determine actions to combat the pandemic of the new coronavirus.
Fact-Checked by: Estadão Verifica
2020/06/30 | Brazil
FALSE: Hydroyichloroquine prevents patients from developing the worst kind of COVID-19
Fact-Checked by: Maldita.es
2020/06/30 | Spain, Brazil
FALSE: Publications that claim that a Brazilian deputy has uncovered “the great farce of the sick and deceased of COVID-19” when discovering an empty field hospital.
Fact-Checked by: AAP FactCheck
2020/06/30 | Australia
FALSE: A Facebook post claims that there is no COVID-19 pandemic.
Fact-Checked by: AAP FactCheck
2020/06/30 | Australia
Partly False: A Facebook post by a “Serena Williams” has been interpreted by some as being from the tennis champ.
Fact-Checked by: Chequeado
2020/06/30 | Argentina
MISLEADING: A publication that says that the Governor of Jujuy (Argentina), Gerardo Morales, assured: “We are going to bring patients from other provinces”
Fact-Checked by: Facta
2020/06/30 | Italy
FALSE: A video which claims that infrared thermometers would be “killing us” by altering our central nervous system.
Fact-Checked by: Maldita.es
2020/06/30 | Spain
MISLEADING: A WhatsApp message that the European Union wants to relax vaccination regulations so that the COVID-19 vaccine is available more quickly since “Gates and his accomplices seem to be in a rush to administer it” although “it probably equates to a genocide”.
Fact-Checked by: Agência Lupa
2020/06/30 | Brazil
FALSE: Denis Mukwege, Nobel Award laureate, resigned his post as head of a commitee to deal with the pandemic after being asked to forge the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths.
Fact-Checked by: La Silla Vacía
2020/06/30 | Colombia
FALSE: Gargling with baking soda kills coronavirus.
Fact-Checked by: Facta
2020/06/29 | Italy
MISLEADING: A video where people, allegedly Covid-19 victims, are thrown out of an helicopter in Mexico.
Fact-Checked by: Agência Lupa
2020/06/29 | Brazil
FALSE: Bruno Covas, Mayor of São Paulo, admited using chloroquine. He banned the drug in São Paulo.
Fact-Checked by: AAP FactCheck
2020/06/29 | Australia
FALSE: A post claims a COVID-19 vaccine has already been developed and will cause widespread infertility.
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